Originally posted on Tim Gagnon's Sketchbook Challenge: Welcome to Tim Gagnon’s Sketchbook Challenge. The goal of the “challenge” is to get you drawing in your sketchbook more frequently. Drawing is the foundation of art. It is one of the first forms of communication, and one of the first ways we, as humans, recorded history.…

Here is my attempt at sketching and outlining the second bird in my lesson.

A wash of my version of burnt sienna is applied to the background. After a couple hours of layering the paint here is my result. Life has taken over my time and I hope to be able to finish the background this week.

You can get an idea of that the birds are to look like and how the lesson looks by viewing Tim’s youtube channel.

Damyanti Biswas is an author, blogger, animal-lover, spiritualist. Her work is represented by Ed Wilson from the Johnson & Alcock agency. When not pottering about with her plants or her aquariums, you can find her nose deep in a book, or baking up a storm.